Persistent Scatterer interferometry (PSI) represents a powerful tool for the detection and monitoring of tiny surface deformations in vast areas, allowing a better understanding of its triggering mechanisms, planning of mitigation measures, as well as to find better solutions for social and environmental issues. However, there is no record hitherto of its use in active open pit mine in tropical...

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Paul W. Bauer is an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Allen N. Berger is a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and David B. Humphrey is a professor of finance at Florida State University. The authors would like to thank Knox Love11 and James Thomson for helpful comments, and Alex Wolman and Fadi Alameddine for outstanding research assistance.

in all over the world, mining is considered as a high-risk activity that is pregnant with serious disasters not only for miners, engineers, and other people into it, but also for people who live near the mines. in this article, our main purpose is to examine some major mine disasters and safety in mines and the case study is a coal mine in turkey. safety in mines is one of the most important is...

Abs t rac t Much of the focus of the research effort in path planning for mobile robots has centred on the problem of finding a path from a start location to a goal location, while minimising one or more parameters such as length of path, energy consumption or journey time. A path of complete coverage is a planned path in which a robot sweeps all areas of free space in an environment in a syste...

A daunting mine disaster took place in 13 May 2014 at Soma and 301 men lost their lives. Brief information about the Eynez coal mine and some of the inherent characteristics of the field in terms of their effects on mining are presented. This paper basically concentrates on the factors that played an important role in the occurrence of this disaster. Progress of mine fire, firefighting, and res...

The author acknowledges a TMR grant of the European Union. I am grateful to the Ministry of Planning of Rwanda which provides me with the data, and in which I worked from 1984 to 1988 as a technical adviser for the French Cooperation and Development Ministry. I thank participants in seminars at University of Oxford, INRAIDEI at Toulouse, and STICERD at the London School of Economics for their c...

Unmanned vehicle (UxV) operations for Mine Countermeasures (MCM) offer the benefit of removing operators from minefields but pose unique operational challenges. On the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), MCM UxV operations are performed by a team of up to seven operators and consist of multiple UxV systems, including vehicles (e.g., the Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV), and the Remote Multi-Mission Vehic...

A variety of data mining techniques are under evaluation on the spatial data of concern in our setting. We are planning to integrate a number of these techniques into our geospatial system (GIDB). Three approaches are under special consideration and are described in the paper. A COTS data mining system has been successfully used to develop predictive models of near-shore conditions such as wave...

this paper deals with the planning of rehabilitation of spoils of asbestos mine in nw greece with the name mabe in prefecture of kozani. for this purpose a detailed ecological research has taken place in the wider area in order to estimate the prevailing environmental (site) conditions. the spoils heaps are characterized by very steep slope inclination (80-90%). in order to improve the stabilit...